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The online conference. Photo: Q.H

On May 12, the General Department of Vietnam Customs held an online conference to gather comments on the draft decision to replace Decision No.282/QD-TCHQ guiding risk managements in customs operations. Deputy Director General of Vietnam Customs Hoang Viet Cuong chaired the conference.

Representatives of the department’s operational departments and 10 local major customs departments attended the conference.

Information indicators added

At the conference, Deputy Director of Risk Management Department Ho Ngoc Phan presented some new and revised contents in the draft.

Basically, each information indicator foreach type of information, methods of collecting and handling for each information type are inherited from the provisions of Decisions 464/QD-BTC and Decision 282/QD-TCHQ, whileinformation indicators that need to be collected are added to meet the new requirements in Circular 81/2019/TT-BTC.

Supplementing some information indicators on customs declarants, including customs brokers, international postal and express service providers; duty-free goods businesses; owners of means of transport on entry and exit; drivers of means of transport on entry and exit; people authorised by owners of vehicles.

In addition, adding information indicators that need to be collected for people and luggage on entry and exit; entry and exit vehicles before arriving at or leaving the international airport; information on imported goods transported under customs supervision; and information provided by organisations and individuals involved in or related to production, import, export andimmigration activities.

The draft also expands compliance assessment for all customs declarants, including import and export enterprises; customs brokers; international postal service providers, international express service providers; owners of means of transport, people authorised by owners of means of transport on exit, entry and in transit to comply with Circular 81.

Regarding risk management to decide customs supervision and inspection in operational customs, the draft has some contents inherited from Decision 282 and specifies duty assignment for the GDVC’s subordinate-units to perform their functions and duties more clearly.

In addition, adding contents on risk management to decide the supervision of sampling for specialized inspection (to be consistent with provisions of Decree No. 59/2018/ND-CP, Circular No.39/2018/TT-BTC amending and supplementing Circular No. 38/2018/TT-BTC and Circular 81); to decide inspection and supervision in duty-free business activities (in accordance with Decree 167/2016/ND-CP on duty-free goods and Circular 81); to decide on inspection of goods transported under customs supervision to comply with the provisions of Circular 38/2015/ ND-CP.

The draft also amends and supplements a number of contents to be consistent with reality and the technical infrastructure, techniques and information technology system. Accordingly, provisions are applied for all routes, instead of only aviation and sea routes as previously.

Building IT system

The conference has received comments from representatives of local customs departments and specialized units, focusing on guiding the order, principles and methods of information collection; overall solution of information technology system on risk management operations; updating declaration data affecting the risk analysis and assessment.

Speaking at the end of the conference, Deputy Director General Hoang Viet Cuong proposed the Risk Management Department to summarise all comments and suggestions for the draft before and during the conference.

First of all, it is necessary to unify the principle process andspecify performance of officers at the executive level such as building an operational handbook. On the other hand, it is necessary to clearly identify the consistency between the draft decision and the screening process, the centre of determining the key.

In identifying targeted contents, it is necessary to do well information collection from the GDVC’s customs departments, municipal and provincial customs departments and gather information to one focal point to analyse and develop accurate risk assessment criteria.

“It is necessary to promulgate this decision soon to urgently build operational solutions, thereby building an IT system is not only for risk management system but also for other systems to meet actual requirements, when regulations are amended continuously,” Cuong said.